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Documenting the Initial Second Language Reading Experience: The Readers Speak
Author(s) -
Gascoigne Carolyn
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2002.tb02723.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , recall , psychology , metacognition , linguistics , reading aloud , exploratory research , protocol analysis , second language , cognitive psychology , cognition , cognitive science , sociology , philosophy , neuroscience , anthropology
This article documents strategy, affective reactions, and metacognitive assessments of beginning French students encountering their very first French reading exercise via think‐aloud and recall protocols. The findings of this exploratory investigation suggest that beginning second language (L2) readers transfer strategies from the first language (L1) and/or other L2 reading experiences to new reading situations, and are able to manage authentic texts from as early as 12 hours of instruction.